[ mood meter happy ]
one mitten, coming right up!
all that's left is to knit the thumb and mitten #1 is done! methinks mitten #2 should go much quicker now that i have a pretty good idea of what to do. i had NAM's daughter try it on for fit...and it was perfect. my little cousin will love it! i think i'll make her a hat out of the same yarn.
(special thanks to knitlisters marina, catherine, judi, marie, sue, karin, dorothea, karen and judy for being so incredibly helpful!)
the stashbuster afghan is no more!
in other news, i decided to abandon the stashbuster afghan. i know, i just started the thing. but i honestly didn't want to knit an afghan. at least not a plain ol' garter stitch one. so...i raided my yarn stash, putting aside all the stuff i was sure i wouldn't use. boxed it up and...gave it away to NAM. i was tired of looking at it, and anyway, isn't gluttony a sin? plus....i want to upgrade my stash a bit. nice wool, cashmere, mohair. not that there's anything wrong with the lovely acrylics i have! oh, what's that you say? i'm becoming a YARN SNOB? well, maybe a little...but in a -good- way!
swatches...not just for telling time!
(surely i'm not the only one who remembers SWATCH watches...and had more than one! my first one came with a mini swiss army knife...)
anyway, i started a swatch for the accordion sweater. my office gets so dang-on cold (i generally don't like air conditioning) that i decided to make a sweater to keep at work. now, realistically, it could very well be winter before the thing is finished, but hey, sweaters are always good to have in winter! i have about 1-1/2 skeins of a lovely yarn i'd like to use. i'm hoping my LYS has more of it. the problem with this LYS, though, is that it's more like a warehouse or something. they don't have labels on the yarn. everything is sold in bulk and you pay by the ounce. so for acrylics and cottons, which is most of what they have, it can end up being a great deal. this is the same dark gray yarn that i used to make the cabled mini bag (pictures coming eventually). looks like it will make a lovely cozy sweater.
so while we're talking about swatches...how do you do yours? my gauge for this sweater should be: 18 sts/ 28 rows=4" in stockinette. i'm making my swatch probably about 5"x5" (maybe a little bigger) with a garter stitch border. i figure this will help the swatch lie nice and flat when i measure (and plus it will look nice whenever i get around to assembling a nice knitting journal). is this appropriate? or should i just do 18 stitches and 28 rows and see if it measures to 4"?
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